UMNO GA 2013

3.12.2013.

In the next few days the  local media will spread out their dutiful coverage of the 2013 UMNO General Assembly. Anyone with any pretension on Malaysian politics  would follow the deliberations. This, in terms of numbers, would be the biggest General Assembly  ever, and coming after GE 13, the most important  for the rest of the party's future. 

UMNO will have to get past the party jokers who come each year to try and outdo each other in getting the biggest laughter.  There are  serious issues here. These are no laughing matters.

First, problems must be recognized and the remedies outlined.

Second, the future leaders must be identified and their ideas sought.

Third, the committment to an agreed plan of action must be made right before the Assembly.

The issues are singularly clear - the spade has to be called a spade.

The future leaders mostly lurk in the sidelines - they have to be given a prominent place behind the retiring and to-be-retired present leaders.

The plan of action has to be spelt in black-and-white and the deadlines struck solid.

Otherwise it will be just another assembly, joking its way to UMNO's imminent demise. And that could be sooner than the delegates, poor fellows, ever expect.

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